Sed with wild-cards

[TheQuirk]

All righty, here's my problem: I need to replace a (batch) of links to point to one page. Would "sed" accept a wild card? Would this work (I don't have access to my website right now so I can't check):

for i in /home/glezhe/www/* ; do sed 's%http://www.belg88.com/friends/*%notnow.php%g' $i > $i.new ; done

[Void Main]

If you want to replace text in all HTML files in a directory this is a good way to do it:

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perl -i -p -e "s/OLD/NEW/g;" *.html


where "OLD" is the text you want to replace and "NEW" is the text you want to replace it with. Or if you want to change it on your entire web site:

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cd /var/www/html
find -name '*.html' | xargs perl -i -p -e "s/OLD/NEW/g;"


Should work.

This will change text in the file, and not save a backup of the file so you might want to have backups in case you change more than you want.

[TheQuirk]

All righty, I'll do it in a moment and see if it works (the string I want to replace contains a slash, so I will either endup using a "&" sign instead of the slash and I want sed to read, though).

[Void Main]

It should be able to handle slashes if you put a backslash in front of it "\/" in your OLD/NEW.

[X11]

hmmmmmmmmmm